During the Christmas holidays of 1895, a poster was placed in the Grand Café, located on the Boulevard des Capucines, inviting everyone to watch a performance from Cinema Lumiere. Entrance cost 1 franc. Everyone who purchased an entrance ticket went down to a separate hall located on the lower floor of the building. Here, an unusual picture opened before the eyes of visitors - a large white canvas was stretched on the wall, and opposite it was a tripod with a box that looked like an old camera.

In 1896, the city of New Orleans opened the first movie theater capable of accommodating 400 spectators. Its founder was William Rock. This cultural institution had an interesting feature - almost all services in it were priced at 10 cents. This amount had to be paid for watching the movie. For 10 cents, visitors could buy a frame cut from film as a souvenir or get into the projectionist's closet and see with their own eyes the miracle of technology of those times - the first film projector "Edison Vitascope".

In 1910, a huge Guamo Palace cinema opened its doors in Paris for film lovers. Its hall was designed to accommodate 5,000 spectators at the same time. Moreover, all the seats in it were located in such a way that they provided a comfortable view from anywhere in the large hall. It is noteworthy that then for the first time they began to practice the use of two projectors during the session at once, so as not to create delays or failures at the time of replacing reels with films.

As has happened more than once in history - after the first steps in the development of cinema, progress went by leaps and bounds. Soon, an enterprising figure invented and opened the so-called drive-in cinema. It happened in New York in 1933. The ability to watch movies on the big screen from the inside of your own car is a favorite of many. Someone considered it original, someone mysterious and even romantic. But everyone enjoyed attending the sessions. The cinema had an area of ​​10 acres and allowed four hundred cars to comfortably accommodate. Its screen was 12 meters long and 9 meters wide, which provided excellent visibility.

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